The NZILA Education Foundation was registered by the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects in 1999 as a charitable trust with the Charities Commission. In 2015 the NZILA Education Foundation was renamed the Landscape Foundation.
Landscape affects every one of us. Landscape affects our aspirations, the places we live in, who we are and what we identify with.
Landscape is perceived, experienced, made and remade by people and communities. Each culture understands, values and responds to nature and culture in a different way, and landscape reflects those differences. Within each culture individuals and communities also hold different values about landscape, according to their world views.
Maori and European derived Pakeha New Zealanders understand and value landscape according to their different cultures. We value our unique flora and fauna, coastlines and the everyday, as well as the special aspects of our landscape and the resources we derive from it.
Together we can work for change which enhances our places and spaces within the landscape.
The Landscape Foundation draws attention to landscape change. We will explore options for managing our landscape using the very best techniques and knowledge.
The NZILA Education Foundation was registered by the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects in 1999 as a charitable trust. In 2015 the NZILA Education Foundation was renamed the Landscape Foundation.
NZILA Education Foundation is registered with the Charities Commission and can be found on the following website: www.charities.govt.nz
Our charities commission number is CC31765
The principal purpose of the Foundation is:
To raise the awareness of the influence and impact of landscape architecture and design and planning on the environment, for the benefit of the public of New Zealand and to educate those involved in or associated with Landscape Architecture and design.
We want to inform you the decision maker, and you the resident about changes to our landscapes, what affects them and how we might plan, design and manage this precious place for the future.
We will work with the landscape architecture profession and others to increase awareness of the influence and impact of landscape architecture and design and planning on the environment, and to educate those involved in or associated with Landscape Architecture and design for the benefit of the public of New Zealand.
We bring:
Experts on sustainable landscape management to New Zealand.
We help educate those involved in or associated with landscape architecture and design.
We support conferences and meetings which advance knowledge and skills in landscape planning, design and management
Thomas Woltz of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects is one of the rising stars in the profession of landscape architecture. His work integrates the beauty and function of built form and craftsmanship with an understanding of complex biological systems and restoration. His design work infuses places where people live, work and play with narratives of the land that inspire stewardship.
Trustees currently run the NZILA Education foundation. The founding trustees were Dr Frank Boffa, Dr Diane Menzies and Jan Woodhouse.
The current trustees are Dr Alayana Renata - Landscape Architect (Chair), Sam Bourne- Landscape Architect, Dr Anthony Hoeta- Architect, Carolyn Hill- Architect - heritage managment and conservation and, Dr Diane Menzies, Sarah Collins and Jan Woodhouse - who are all Landscape Architects.
The Trustees are responsible for setting the overall strategy of the foundation and for its day-to-day administration.
Each of the trustees give of their time freely and they are not paid. They are reimbursed for actual expenses.
Chair Alayna Renata has a BLA hons -Lincoln, Dip Māori, Cert. Iwi Env. Management she completed her PhD at QUT in Brisbane Australia in 2018 and is a Registered landscape architect with NZILA and AILA. She has iwi affiliations with (Kāi Tahu ki Puketeraki) she is a member of Te Tau-a-Nuku and Nga Aho, has worked for global multidisciplinary consultancies, private sector organisations and Government agencies. She has been a Director of a multi-national business and held numerous leadership positions in private practice and the public sector. She identifies as a Māori landscape architect – seeing the profession of landscape architecture through a lens that explores all aspects of social, environmental, cultural, ecological, economic, and educational design as being integrally linked.
Dr Anthony Hoeta is a Professor of Architecture (Māori) and is of Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Ranana descent. His academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) from the University of Auckland, a Master of Architecture from The Bartlett at University College London, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He has practiced in Aotearoa New Zealand, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands.
His research interests include Māori and Indigenous architectural projects, including Māori social housing and “unlocking” Māori land, even on his tūrangawaewae, Motiti Island.
Carolyn Hill was the editor of the Landscape Foundations book Kia Whakanui ate Whenua. She has tertiary qualifications in architecture and development studies and has recently graduated with a Master of Architecture with a focus on the historic churches as cultural landscapes in the Cook Islands. She is a consultant in cultural heritage management and conservation, and has experience across public and private sectors in New Zealand, Australia and the UK
and she writes on subjects of Pacific architecture, people-place attachment, public policy and biculturalism through a cultural landscape lens.
She is a full member of ICOMOS (NZL581) and a member of its International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL) she is also a registered architect with the NZRAB (4892, currently on voluntary suspension).
Dr Diane Menzies is a past president of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects and was elected to Life Member status in 2005.ﾠ She was appointed to the Environment Court of New Zealand as a Commissioner in 2001. Diane was elected President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) in 2006, serving two terms as President, and was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the environment in 2008.
Jan Woodhouse is the Chairperson of the NZILA Education Foundation. Jan is an Auckland based landscape architect with her own practice, is a current Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects and a past vice president. She convened the NZILA awards for 2 years and has acted as a judge for the NZILA awards. Jan has also been a judge at the Ellerslie Flower Show for 13 years and was appointed Convenor of Judges in its final year in Auckland. She is currently an assessor for the New Zealand Gardens Trust.
Sam Bourne is the Principal Advisor: Urban Design and Landscape at the NZ Transport Agency. He is a Registered Member of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, and has served as the Chairman of the Auckland NZILA Branch during the Auckland Spatial Plan and Central City Master Plan phases. Sam’s project work has included NZILA Gold Award for Urban Design and Landscape Guidelines published by the NZ Transport Agency. His role as the project Landscape Architect on the Rangiriri Section of the Waikato Expressway (currently under development) captures his particular interest in cultural heritage, natural heritage and restoration ecology. This has fostered a passion for on-going work on bio-regionalism including a collaboration with UNITEC’s Masters Programme.
Sarah Collins is a Landscape Architect and Senior Principal with Boffa Miskell Ltd. She is a Fellow Member of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects and has served on its Executive Committee for two terms. Sarah set up the NZILA awards programme and was its initial convenor. Her project work has won multiple awards including the Vice Presidents Award of Excellence for Project Manukau for Watercare 2004, the Multi-serve Education Award 2004, for Innovative Education for the environmental trail at Meadowbank School, a NZILA Awards Gold for Institutional design around the library at St Johns College in Auckland as well as numerous silver awards.
